The death toll from powerful storm Helene jumped to at least 93 on Sunday, with one county in North Carolina alone reporting 30 deaths, authorities said, as rescuers battled to reach people in need across the southeastern United States. The storm response took on a political tinge after President Joe Biden and the two candidates vying to replace him, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, announced plans to soon visit hard-hit areas, some of them in key battleground states in the November election. High winds and torrential rain pummeled towns and cities across Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Homes were destroyed, roads flooded out and power cut off to millions. «We're hearing (of) significant infrastructure damage to water systems, communication, roads, critical transportation routes, as well as several homes that have been just destroyed by this,» the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Deanne Criswell, said Sunday. At least 93 people were killed in the extreme weather -- 37 in North Carolina, 25 in South Carolina, 17 in Georgia, 11 in Florida, two in Tennessee and one in Virginia, according to tallies from local authorities compiled by AFP. That total was expected to rise. «We have another devastating update. We now have 30 confirmed losses due to the storm,» Quentin Miller, the sheriff in North Carolina's Buncombe County, which includes the tourist city of Asheville, told a briefing. Flood warnings remained in effect in parts of western North Carolina, amid fears of potential dam failures. Conditions were expected to improve in the affected areas by around Tuesday, National Weather Service director Ken Graham said. Nearly 2.2 million households remained without power on Sunday, according to tracker poweroutage.us. US Department of Energy official Matt Targuagno said that crews were working hard to restore electricity but warned it would be «a complex, multi-day response.» Thousands of people continued to seek assistance in shelters run by the American Red Cross, organization official Jennifer Pipa said. - Bridges washed away - Helene blew into Florida's northern Gulf shore as a huge Category Four hurricane with winds of 140 miles (225 kilometers) per hour. Even as it weakened, it wreaked havoc. North Carolina saw some of the worst of the flooding, with Governor Roy Cooper saying rescuers were being forced to airlift supplies in some areas due to damaged or flooded roads. «I don't know that anybody could be fully prepared for the amount of flooding and landslides that they are experiencing right now,» Criswell said on CBS, adding that more search and rescue teams were being deployed. William Ray, director of the state's emergency management department, warned that conditions were still extremely dangerous. Hundreds of roads across the region remained closed, with several bridges washed away by floodwaters. Four major interstate highways were closed across North Carolina and Tennessee, with «multiple» bridges still out, said Kristin White of the US Department of Transportation. Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina each had more than 100 road closures, she added. In the Georgia city of Valdosta, the storm ripped the roofs off buildings, and left road intersections a tangle of felled utility poles and trees. «The wind started really hitting, like, felt branches and pieces of the roof hitting the side of the building and hitting the windows,» said Valdosta resident Steven Mauro. «And then we were looking out and then literally this whole street, just everything went black.» Trump, the Republican former president seeking another term, will visit Valdosta on Monday for a briefing on the disaster, his campaign said. Biden, who has approved federal aid for several states in the wake of the disaster, intends to travel to hard-hit areas this week, «as soon as it will not disrupt emergency response operations,» the White House said Sunday, later adding that Harris would do the same. «We will stand with these communities for as long as it takes to make sure that they are able to recover and rebuild,» Harris said Sunday evening at a campaign rally in Las Vegas. Biden was scheduled to speak about the post-storm response from the White House on Monday. © Agence France-Presse

Israel carried out an air strike on a Beirut apartment block on Monday, a Lebanese security source said, killing four people in its first such raid on the heart of the city since the outbreak of the Gaza war last year. Israel has turned its focus from Gaza to Lebanon in recent days, carrying out attacks on Iran's regional allies. Strikes on Hezbollah targets killed the Iran-backed group's leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday. Monday's drone attack targeted a «flat belonging to Jamaa Islamiya», a Lebanese Islamist group, the security source said. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a secular left-wing group, said three of its members were killed in Monday's strike on Beirut's Kola district. The group said in a statement that its military security chief Mohammad Abdel-Aal, military commander Imad Odeh, and Abdelrahman Abdel-Aal were killed. The Israeli military said it had launched fresh strikes on dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon's Bekaa region on Monday. Israel «will continue to attack powerfully, damage and degrade Hezbollah's military capabilities and infrastructure in Lebanon», the army said in a statement on Telegram. - 'Largest displacement' - Television footage showed the partially flattened floor of the building targeted by the strike, in the predominantly Sunni neighbourhood of Kola, near the road linking the capital to Beirut airport. AFP journalists reported drones flying over the Lebanese capital throughout Sunday. Israeli attacks have killed hundreds in Lebanon since last Monday, the deadliest day since the country's 1975-1990 civil war. Lebanon's health ministry reported at least 105 people killed in Israeli strikes on Sunday, with 359 people wounded. In the last week, Israeli bombardment has killed more than 700 people, including 14 paramedics over a two-day period, the ministry said. UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said «well over 200,000 people are displaced inside Lebanon» and more than 50,000 have fled to neighbouring Syria. Prime Minister Mikati said up to one million people may have been uprooted, in potentially the «largest displacement movement» in Lebanon's history. - Yemen strikes - Israeli aggression on Lebanon has sparked fears of an all-out war in the Middle East. Israel said it also carried out strikes in Yemen on Sunday, targeting Iran-backed Huthi rebel positions. Huthi media reports said those strikes killed four people and wounded 33. The raids in Yemen came a day after the Huthis said they launched a missile at an Israeli airport, trying to hit it as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was returning from New York. The Israeli military has said its operations in Lebanon aim to eliminate Hezbollah's leadership and capacity to attack Israel. It said the air strike that killed Nasrallah on Friday also «eliminated» another 20 Hezbollah members, including senior leaders. Israel also said another strike on Saturday killed Nabil Qaouq, a member of Hezbollah's central council. Hezbollah has yet to officially announce his death, but a source close to the group said Qaouq had been killed. Analysts told AFP Nasrallah's death leaves a bruised Hezbollah under pressure to respond. - Calls for halt - World leaders have called for a de-escalation to avoid a wider regional conflict. French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot met with Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Lebanon on Sunday night -- the first high-level foreign diplomat to visit since the Israeli strikes intensified -- and said Paris sought «an immediate halt» to Israeli strikes. Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry issued a statement early Monday, calling for Lebanon's «sovereignty and territorial integrity» to be respected. US President Joe Biden -- whose government is Israel's top arms supplier -- said Sunday a wider war «really has to be avoided». Pope Francis, asked about Israeli air strikes on civilians, said a country «goes beyond morality» when defence is not proportional to the attack. In Gaza, the territory's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes Sunday killed several people. Hamas's unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures that include hostages killed in captivity. Of the 251 hostages seized by militants, 97 are still held in Gaza, including 33 the Israeli military says are dead. Israel's retaliatory military offensive has killed at least 41,595 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures provided by the Hamas-run territory's health ministry. The UN has described the figures as reliable. © Agence France-Presse

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